Paul Spangler

Paul’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (16)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (789)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
picture-book‎ (16)
poverty‎ (13)
nonfiction‎ (11)
childrens‎ (8)
picture-books‎ (7)
short‎ (6)
christianity‎ (5)
poetry‎ (5)

religion‎ (5)
family‎ (4)
history‎ (4)
picture‎ (4)
refugee‎ (4)
christian‎ (3)
food‎ (3)
memoir‎ (3)
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theology‎ (3)
environment‎ (2)

faith‎ (2)
nature‎ (2)
picturebook‎ (2)
short-stories‎ (2)
activism‎ (1)
american-christianity‎ (1)
autobiography‎ (1)
biography‎ (1)
books‎ (1)
christian-living‎ (1)
comedy‎ (1)
cooking‎ (1)

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essays‎ (1)
fables‎ (1)
farming‎ (1)
few-words‎ (1)
fiction‎ (1)
folktales‎ (1)
food-banks‎ (1)
food-pantry‎ (1)

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Paul’s Quotes

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers

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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton

tags: american-presidents, inaugural-address, us-presidents

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

tags: travel

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“Be careful whom you choose to hate.
The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly.
Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

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